Asynchronous programming with async and await has existed in .NET for years. Now Microsoft is delivering a new runtime environment for asynchronous execution.

The next major release, .NET 11, should arrive in November 2026, and the project recently unveiled its first public preview. Like earlier first looks, it’s nowhere near feature complete, with several ...

What end-of-life really means When Microsoft declares a runtime “end of life,” the headlines often make it sound like your ...

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Microsoft announced the availability of .NET 10 Release Candidate 2 (RC2), the final prerelease version before general availability. As with RC1, the release is production-ready with a go-live support ...

Many Visual Studio developers are looking forward to the debut of .NET 9 in November, but they should also be aware of a potential security issue with .NET 6, which will reach end of support at the ...

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.NET Aspire is a cloud-native application stack designed to simplify the development of distributed systems in .NET. Introduced at Microsoft's 2024 Build developer conference, it provides a set of ...

Microsoft has unveiled .NET Aspire 9.1, a significant update aimed at streamlining the developer experience through a host of new dashboard features and quality of life enhancements based on developer ...

Overview: Modern .NET evolved from .NET Core and supports cross-platform cloud development environments.NET Framework remains widely used in legacy enterprise s ...

Microsoft has announced that the classic .NET Framework version 3.5 will no longer be part of the operating system setup in Windows 11 starting in 2026. Previously, .NET Framework 3.5 was an optional ...